Re: Retina scans caused broadcast storms

From: Fabrice Aubry (fabrice.aubry@wanadooportails.com)
Date: Thu Nov 25 2004 - 13:49:30 EST


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I've nerely crashed 25% of a class B subnet, and if I had waited to long every thing would have gone down.

Cisco Catalyst Switches did not like the scan.
Some options in Retina are much to agressive to be used
on a production network.

Fine tuning Retina's Configuration is really necessary for live audits on production networks.

Fabrice Aubry
SysAdmin / Wanadoo Hosting

>Has anyone ever caused a full blown broadcast storm by using the Retina
>Security Scanner.
>
>Its looks as if I may caused a severe slow down on a network recently and think
>the scanner may have caused it. What I am trying to determine is whether
>existing problems in the switching enviroment may have been exaserbated by the
>use of the scanner.
>
>Anybody else ever experience these sorts of issues with Retina?
>
>dale
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